Director of company responsible for Grenfell Tower refurbishment admits he is clueless over what cladding was made from. Andrew Goldman said 'we don't know there is any direct link between the fire and cladding'

Mr Goldman said he would ask his colleague what the cladding was made of and find the answer "very quickly", but he also didn't know who the work was contracted out to.

“The finger of suspicion is being put on this cladding," said Piers. "I don’t think it’s unreasonable to ask you as the boss of the company to find what its made of.”

Mr Goldman said: “As I said we’re trying to get the facts together very quickly."

Piers replied: “These aren’t very satisfactory answers in light of what has happened.”

The telephone line was then lost abruptly before the Rydon director could respond again.

Piers added: “The reason we were giving him quite hard time is because he’s the director of Rydon who put the cladding onto the building last year and many witnesses say they saw the cladding go up like a ball of fire and that raises many questions.”

I hope to see this man convicted of manslaughter....... but these creeps are always one step ahead of justice.

The week saw one of the worst urban disasters in recent history, as runaway fires consumed a low-income high-rise council estate in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea. So far, police have confirmed 17 dead and have indicated that they expect to find many more fatalities.As the old adage goes, there are no natural disasters, only human ones.But this horrific scene in west London symbolises much more than simple negligence. The image of a Wicker Man comes to mind.

Were low-income residents sacrificed at the altar of austerity, greed and corporate privatisation?As North Kensington’s towering inferno continues to smoulder into the early morning, circumstantial evidence is beginning to emerge showing how Conservative MPs sidelined legislation that would have required higher safety standards. According to reports, a group of Tory MPs have consistently voted against tenants’ rights including voting down Labour’s amendment to the recent Housing and Planning Bill which would have required landlords to make their homes “fit for habitation.” Perhaps not surprisingly, the 72 Tory MPs who killed the legislation also just happened to be commercial landlords themselves.

1 Boris_JohnsonTo add insult to injury, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson during his tenure as Mayor of London instituted cuts that have stripped London of 7,000 of its firefighters in the last five years, with numerous Fire Station closures and other cuts to frontline emergency services.So how did Grenfell Tower turn into a death trap for so many ? The organisation responsible for maintenance and safety at the social housing block is the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation (KCTMO). But the organisation’s name is deceptive – far from being a tenant-run company, the ‘TMO’ is actually a private company – an aloof ivory tower that sits far above the actual residents, and who ‘manage’ 10,000 properties… with handsome salaries and fees for selected executives and contractors. Although Grenfell Tower is owned by the Borough Council of Kensington and Chelsea, the management of the tower block is subcontracted out to the TMO.Critics of the public-private partnership, or PPP, management hand-off claim that the quasi-privatised TMO arrangement is rife with corruption, including sweetheart deals to contractors. It also enables connected board members to fleece poor residents while taking home enormous sums of money for doing little if anything for it. Last year, the KCTMO was paid £11million ($14 million) in taxpayer money to manage Grenfell Tower. According to the Mail Online, four senior members of TMO took £650,000 between them last year. And that’s not all:

“There are also claims that there was no central sprinkler system – or it was also not working properly during the fire. Others have claimed that the new cladding encasing the block added during last year’s £10million refurbishment by Rydon Construction caught alight ‘like a matchstick’.” This [petroleum-based, flammable plastic] exterior cladding was apparently added to the building to improve the view and cosmetic appearance of the tower when seen from a new development or private luxury flats in the locality.Apparently, this was all part of a “regeneration project” which was said to be completed last year on only one building: Grenfell Tower.

It seems staggering that people even vote on whether something should be "fit for habitation". Question would be, if something more sinister and contrived is afoot, why this tower particularly?

In addition, I saw a youtube video a few days ago which I can't link as I'm at work, which was posted by a man purporting to know one of the surveyors for this tower and others in the area. He said a major issue was people cooking meals in trashcans.

Apparently people who have immigrated from country's where this is the norm, choose not to use the hob and instead have open fires in their kitchens in the bins.

Is this true, maybe we will never know...but the "fridge explosion" angle always seemed a little weird to me.